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10 Pounds Palestine Saving Bond
| Issuer | Higher Nile Valley Authority for the Rescue of Palestine |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | هيئة وادى النيل العليا لأنقاد فلسطين المعتمدة من وزارة الشئون الاجتماعية التوزيع الثانى رقم ٠٢٢٠٥٥ من حضرة امضاء رئيس الهيئة امضاء أمين الصندوق ١٠ جنيه مصرية |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely plain, printed on unadorned cream paper with no text, vignettes, or ornamental elements. The left stub, separated by a line of perforation, is equally blank. |
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The "Higher Nile Valley Authority for the Rescue of Palestine" was not a recognized government or central bank — it was one of several pan-Arab fundraising bodies that issued bond-style instruments in 1948 to finance Palestinian Arab military and relief efforts during the war that followed partition. These were essentially solidarity instruments, circulated among sympathetic populations in Egypt and Sudan rather than functioning as negotiable currency in any formal sense.
Provenance matters here more than condition. Documentation tying a surviving example to a specific issuing committee or collection point is rare and adds considerably to research value.